Yulia! Frail but defiant, Yulia Tymoshenko joins Ukraine protesters

This is tremendous news. This woman, the former prime minister of Ukraine, spent nearly 3 years in prison because she lost an election to Yanukovych. Yesterday, the Ukrainian parliament passed a law allowing her release. Today, she’s out of prison, making speeches to the protesters.

Interestingly, she has already promised to run for re-election. Ah, politics. But no matter. I don’t particularly care whether she’s part of any new government, whether she exceeded her authority in signing that gas contract, or whether the applause for her speech was loud enough. The fact that she is out of prison and free to speak her mind tells me change is coming for Ukraine.

And Yulia: I love the blond braids and the black leather jacket. Very eastern European indeed! Total hotness.